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With over 250 commercial network launches and over a thousand LTE-enabled devices available in the market as of December 2013, LTE adoption has considerably gained momentum throughout the globe. Unique market and operator requirements have driven several early LTE launches.

Driven by these early launches global LTE subscriptions reached nearly 130 Million in Q4’2013. From an operator viewpoint U.S. operators dominate the market with a 37% market share thanks to the tremendous coverage footprint of tier 1 operators Verizon Wireless & AT&T. The market share of U.S. operators is followed by Japanese and Korean operators NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank, LG Uplus, SK Telecom and KT which represent 38% of all LTE subscriptions worldwide.

Going forward, the LTE market is set to grow at a CAGR of 56% over the next 7 years and will eventually represent more than 20% of all mobile connections by 2020. From an infrastructure manufacturer perspective Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent are leading the market and account for a combined market share of 85% of all LTE contracts. Ericsson is also leading the market from a technology neutral perspective
with a 24% stake in all global 2G/3G/4G contracts.

- Penetration data by region and country.- Population data by region and country.- Infrastructure contracts by technology, data protocol, region, country, vendor and operator.- Infrastructure market share by equipment type, region, country and vendor.- Network deployments by technology, data protocol, region, country and operator.- Five-year subscriptions forecasts by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator.- Subscriptions market share data by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator.- Number of cellular network subscriptions (as of Q4’2013) by air interface technology, data protocol, region, country and operator.
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